AWS Lambda supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event sources

AWS Lambda now supports OAuth authentication for self-managed Apache Kafka event source mappings (ESM), including Kafka clusters that customers run themselves and managed offerings such as Confluent Cloud, Aiven, and Redpanda. With this launch, customers can authenticate their Lambda Kafka consumers through their enterprise identity provider, helping them meet the security and compliance requirements for their Kafka applications. Customers building event-driven Kafka workloads for use cases such as payment processing, fraud detection, and real-time data pipelines use Kafka ESM to build serverl